"Devastatingly good," said Betsey, a devastating critic of second-rate risotto, mine and most of Manhattan's included.
He thus came to public notice as a devastating critic of Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), the zoologist at the nearby University of Jena and the world's leading systematizer and propagandist of Darwinism.
He said that while there had been some "devastating" leaks, critics were conflating unauthorized disclosures that do real harm with legitimate government efforts to inform the public.
"To tell the story, by whatever means necessary," she said, munching chicken she had brought from the home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that she shares with Manuela Hoelterhoff, the acerbic, often devastating culture critic and occasional opera librettist.
And perhaps the most destructive part of the experience is that, rather than experiencing the succès d'estime of connoisseurs' acclaim despite commercial failure, these filmmakers endured devastating reviews from critics who insulted not only the films but their makers.
During the corruption scandal and impeachment proceedings that led to the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello in 1992, his biting monologues and interviews with government critics "were devastating to the president," said Mario Sergio Conti, author of the leading book on the crisis.
On Wednesday night, at the opening of his country's new national stadium in Stockholm, the 31-year-old striker came good with his promise and answered his critics in devastating fashion, raising three fingers to the crowd upon sealing his hat-trick.
The continentals did not "get" Pragmatism; if its German opponents altogether misunderstood it, its Italian adherents among them, of all people, the critic and devastating iconoclast Giovanni Papini travestied it.
Depending on how precisely various different value principles are worked out they have different implications, which critics have regarded as devastating.
Critics of the law, particularly farmers, contractors and home builders, say the measure has already been devastating, leaving rotting crops in fields and critical shortages of labor.
